This text based 5 session English planning uses traditional nursery rhymes. These units are designed to enhance aspects of early phonics development: body percussion, rhythm and rhyme and voice sounds. There is an emphasis on reciting rhyme and exploring the narrative through play as well as sequencing, drawing and matching activities.

All aspects of poetry from the national curriculum in reading, spoken language and writing composition will be covered across the full set Au1-Su2.

EYFS skills for this unit based on Development Matters

Communication and Language

• Begin to understand how to listen carefully and why listening is important
• Engage in story times
• Learn new vocabulary
• Articulate their ideas and thoughts
• Use talk to help work out problems and organise thinking and activities, explain how things work and why they might happen
• Describe events in some detail

For schools that use Pathways to Write, this unit aligns with the Au1 set 1 unit.

Poems for this unit are freely available online.